Each year the HCPC solicits entries from the pharmaceutical industry for consideration in its Compliance Package of the Year competition to determine pharmaceutical packages best designed to optimize patient adherence. Now through Feb. 28, 2014 entries will be accepted. Qualifying packages for the Compliance Package of the Year category must:
- Be in a compliance-prompting format with at least one patient adherence assistance feature
- Have been commercially available during 2013
- Not require drug products to be repackaged by patients.
- Be in a child-resistant format, if intended for home use, per CPSC guidelines.
There is also an Innovative Design category for non-commercially available compliance-prompting packaging formats.
Qualifying entries for this category must include patient adherence features and also not require repackaging by consumers.
There is no fee to participate. For more information, please visit http://www.hcpconline.org/compliance-package.html
Two-Plus Decades of Research Studies Support Improved Patient Adherence With Calendarized, Compliance-Prompting Packaging
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HCPC responds to FDA's Request for Comments on Draft Guidance for Industry on Safety Considerations for Container Labels and Carton Labeling Design to Minimize Medication Errors
The HCPC recently submitted a formal response to this industry guidance draft in an effort to have calendarized packaging recognized as an effective medication adherence tool. Click here for our formal response. For the FDA Draft, please click here.
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Pharmaceutical noncompliance is a tremendous problem in the United States. Estimated annual costs of patients not taking their medications approaches $300 billion.1 It is also estimated that 125,000 Americans die annually (342 people every day) due to poor medication adherence and 10% - 25% of hospital and nursing home admissions are also caused by people's inability to take their medications as prescribed.2
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Going to Interphex? Make it a point to see the HCPC Executive Director's FREE presentation,
"Improve Patient Adherence with Compliance-Prompting Packaging"
Tuesday, March 18, 9:00 am - 10:00 am, Location: 1E20, Javits Center Level 1.
In this presentation, Walt Berghahn will
- provide data showing improved patient adherence through packaging
- review successful compliance-prompting packaging
- give an overview of future trends in smart adherence packaging
- supply information on pharmaceutical packaging formats that provide maximum safety to doses and maintain product efficacy throughout a typical use cycle.
Register as our guest by clicking on the banner below.
HCPC is a proud sponsor of Interphex 2014.
 2012 Compliance Package of the Year: Avive® customized multi-medication 30 day dosing system from MWV Healthcare
 Compliance Package of the Year First Runner Up: Med-ic® 21 Dose Multi-Med Pharmacy Seal Pack from Information Mediary Corporation
 Compliance Package of the Year Second Runner Up: Eli Lilly Strattera® Physician Sample (Dosepak®) Submitted by AndersonBrecon Inc.
Compliance-prompting packaging has been proven to increase patient adherence.
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HCPC is now a proud member of the National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE)
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HCPC is now a proud member of the Council for Affordable Health Coverage
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HCPC is proud to announce it is a member of NEHI
"There is no question that packaging is a part of the overall strategy to addressing medication adherence," Tom Hubbard, NEHI's Vice President of Policy Research... told PMP News. "Medication adherence is a metric in the quality ratings for Medicare drug plans. There are goals that are pressuring drug plans to hit targets for adherence. Payers and providers are thinking more strategically about adherence."... Healthcare plans are trying to figure out the right mix of steps to keep patients adherent and head off overall medication spending. Packaging is part of that response. My personal sense is that there are industry players that are leading the way in packaging. Walmart, for instance, has made a major commitment in its strategy to use packaging."
Read the entire PMP News article here: http://www.pmpnews.com/article/tackling-nonadherence
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Hamilton Park Hotel and Conference Center
Florham Park, New Jersey
RxAdherence 2013 on March 12th was another successful conference focused on patient adherence and compliance prompting pharmaceutical packaging. We had many informative presentations from industry experts including The Council for Affordable Healthcare, NEHI, HealthPrize Technologies, CapGemini, Xcenda plus more. Click here for access to these useful presentations on the impacts of improving patient adherence!
New research conducted on patients utilizing the Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation's Diovan HCT®Shellpak® , a winner in the Compliance Package of the Year competition, highlights improved adherence and persistence with compliance packaging. Read more.
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